Anticipation Guide

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1. The Renaissance is usually applied to
a period in the history of Western Europe
stretching from early 14th century to the
mid late 16th century.

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2. In writing of the time, however, the term
was used more specifically to describe a
movement - the new spirit of rebirth in art
and literature.

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3. It first appiled to the revived study of
classical learning, popularized by the Italian
poet of “ darkness “; later Erasmus of
Rotterdam welcomed new translations of
ancient texts and a “ purer literature. “

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4. The idea of rebirth in art was developed
by the Florentine art historian Giorgio
Vasari.

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5. Giorgio claimed, in his lives of the most
excellent painters, sculptors, and architects,
that art had been reborn.

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6. In Italy in about 1250 and had
progressed through : childhood “ and “
youth “ to its 16th-century maturity.

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7. It is this self-conscious and awareness of
being part of the Renaissance.

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8. The Renaissance Italians idealized the

classical past, seeing their own period as a
second Golden Age.

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9. One of the driving forces for change
in the Renaissance was the growing
professionalization of the artist.

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10. The interchange between these two

approaches is one of the determining
factors of Renaissance style.

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